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Mark your wives: The 1930s marriage test
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 14, 2008 | Matthew Moore

Posted on 05/14/2008 11:09:56 AM PDT by OB1kNOb

American psychologists have unearthed a “marital rating scale” used by marriage counsellors in 1939 to assess the performance of wives – and the categories make interesting reading for modern couples brought up to believe in the equality of the sexes.

Women are awarded marks if they dress for breakfast, ask their husband’s opinions on important decisions and let their partners sleep late on Sundays and holidays.....


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1939; bitterwomen; freepun; goodoldays; manhatersclub; mannhatersclub; marriage; rateurwife; stenchoffeminism; trouble; verybitter; wife; women
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To: lesser_satan
There was a time when only "bad" girls wore nail polish. Also it was considered to be something to cover up dirt under the nails. Wonder what they'd think of the black nail polish now?

carolyn

61 posted on 05/14/2008 12:16:57 PM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: OB1kNOb
There has got to be some make-up bonus points if she looked like Greta Garbo, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Carole Lombard or the money other screen goddesses of the day.
62 posted on 05/14/2008 12:17:54 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: najida

Maybe, but....viva la difference!
I’m so glad my husband is not like me. That way I can be spoiled and selfish! hehehe
susie


63 posted on 05/14/2008 12:18:08 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: yuleeyahoo
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64 posted on 05/14/2008 12:18:43 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Forget about it, McRino. I don't vote for ecofascists.)
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To: OB1kNOb

I like how the wife is expected to go to religious services with the kids while the husband sleeps in late.


65 posted on 05/14/2008 12:18:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: John Leland 1789
Anybody seen more sets?

Links at posts 38 and 54.

Glancing over the lists for both spouses. The wives only get 10 points for sex, but it is a 20 point question on the husbands' list. I guess all those women in 1939 were pretty demanding in bed.

66 posted on 05/14/2008 12:18:55 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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To: najida
Women are the same way according to what I’m reading and hearing (and believe)-— they want a man who treats them well and loves having great sex with them.

Yes, but often they don't want to give it back. It's about what they want and when they want it, not what HE wants when he wants it.

I see this as the fruits of the self-centeredness of the modern feminist mindset. In their efforts for 'equality' it's overshot the target and become something very unequal for husbands.

67 posted on 05/14/2008 12:23:25 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: woollyone

Yours?

Dont’ have a clue....

Mine is Jamie Fraser from “Outlander” followed closely by Zsadist from Black Dagger Brotherhood.


68 posted on 05/14/2008 12:23:38 PM PDT by najida (On FR- Most guys see themselves is Brad Pitt, and think every woman here is Aunt Bea)
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To: KarlInOhio
How many points for "naked at breakfast"?

Not as many as "naked is breakfast"!

69 posted on 05/14/2008 12:24:44 PM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: Lizavetta
I agree-— pendelums have swung from one extreme to another-— but that's how you find the middle ground.
70 posted on 05/14/2008 12:29:48 PM PDT by najida (On FR- Most guys see themselves is Brad Pitt, and think every woman here is Aunt Bea)
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To: NRA1995
She gets points for being jolly and GAY?????
Well, she could get points for being "bi" given the right circumstances ;-)
71 posted on 05/14/2008 12:30:53 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: najida

I’d like to buy a “y” please!


72 posted on 05/14/2008 12:32:44 PM PDT by woollyone (entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
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To: John Leland 1789
Pages #2, 3, & 4 of Wife Test.......just to stir the pot some more :-)

Husband and Wife Tests

73 posted on 05/14/2008 12:33:38 PM PDT by OB1kNOb ("We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor)
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To: Little Bill

LOL!
Sure, I’m a scold and a fishwife——I worked hard to get this much steel in my spine dangit!

As for alphas, they are to us what Playboy centerfolds are to you....something to dream and fantasize about :)


74 posted on 05/14/2008 12:34:52 PM PDT by najida (On FR- Most guys see themselves is Brad Pitt, and think every woman here is Aunt Bea)
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To: cyborg

LOL! I do the same thing at night when my feet are cold.


75 posted on 05/14/2008 12:35:55 PM PDT by Twink
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To: woollyone

Google is your friend.


76 posted on 05/14/2008 12:37:28 PM PDT by najida (On FR- Most guys see themselves is Brad Pitt, and think every woman here is Aunt Bea)
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To: Politicalmom

She did all that during the day because the husband supported the family and she didn’t have to work.


77 posted on 05/14/2008 12:40:27 PM PDT by donna ("Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.")
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To: donna

I’m a SAHM and I have to do all those things before I get to go to bed.


78 posted on 05/14/2008 12:44:42 PM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a leftist Dem with energized GOP opposition, than a leftist "Republican" with no opposition.)
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To: OB1kNOb

Too funny. George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D., had some issues, didn’t he? I love the extreme specificity of his lists.


79 posted on 05/14/2008 12:47:34 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: OB1kNOb

Oh **** no


80 posted on 05/14/2008 12:49:10 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I've done here today doesn't force you to have a negative opinion of me....)
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